Patients and Advocates Raise Awareness for Deadly Preventable Cancer, According to Surviving Mesothelioma

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Mesothelioma patients, families, advocates and others are being encouraged to wear blue and to look for ways to raise awareness of the disease on this 11th Annual Mesothelioma Awareness Day.

Mesothelioma Awareness Day September 26th

Mesothelioma is highly resistant to every kind of traditional cancer therapy, making the need for research funding...even more pressing.

(PRWEB)September 26, 2015

September 26th marks the day when people around the nation are asked to help raise public awareness of mesothelioma, a rare cancer caused by asbestos exposure. Click here to read more about Mesothelioma Awareness Day on the Surviving Mesothelioma website.

Mesothelioma Awareness Day was organized in 2004 by mesothelioma advocates and has since been given official proclamations by both the US House and Senate.

One aim of Mesothelioma Awareness Day is to push for a US ban on asbestos, something 55 other countries already have. Another aim is to support funding for mesothelioma research.

“Mesothelioma is highly resistant to every kind of traditional cancer therapy, making the need for research funding for promising alternatives such as immunotherapy even more pressing,” says Alex Strauss, Managing Editor of Surviving Mesothelioma.

Surviving Mesothelioma is helping to spread of word about the potential power of alternative mesothelioma approaches by offering a best-selling book on the subject by the world’s longest-living mesothelioma survivor.

For nearly ten years, Surviving Mesothelioma has brought readers the most important and ground-breaking news on the causes, diagnosis and treatment of mesothelioma. All Surviving Mesothelioma news is gathered and reported directly from the peer-reviewed medical literature. Written for patients and their loved ones, Surviving Mesothelioma news helps families make more informed decisions.